had been prompting
- past perfect progressive of prompt.
Example Sentences
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Love, too, had been playing its bewitching part; amidst all these drawbacks and disappointments, love had been prompting his ambition with her dreams of a happy future.
From The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by Waud, A. R.
